"Jeff and Melissa's Day of Fun!"

Jeff and I spent the afternoon/evening in the cities on Saturday. I called it "Jeff and Melissa's Day of Fun!" heheh! We went to Benihana for an early dinner. It was quite yummy and entertaining. This is the restaurant where they cook the food in front of you on the open grill (Japanese style). Then we went to Lake Street (Minneapolis) to the Midtown Global Market to do something a little different. We walked around there and looked at the interesting things at the little shops. We bought some dessert and ate it there. Next, we made our way to downtown St. Paul. It was such a beautiful evening we decided to walk around a while. Unfortunately, the ice sculptures were just taken down in Rice Park. We'll have to go a little earlier next year!

Me by the Herb Brooks sculpture... do you believe in miracles? We did see this one ice sculpture by one of the restaurants/bars (they also had a bar and a table and chairs made of ice). Jeff sitting in the ice throne!

Neal Broten received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for hockey while at the Wild Game.

Jeff and I at the Wild Game (they won against the Blues 3-1)! GO WILD!

Happy 2nd Birthday Gavin!

We were excited to help Gavin celebrate his 2nd birthday... hits of the party included Elmo, Thomas the Train and cars/trucks/4-wheelers (the clothes, not so much, but who can blame the kid!!).

Mom made Gavin a banner and a super cute card with his friends Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster! Pretty cute!

Love ya Gavin!

How old are you Gavin??? He says "two" while holding up one finger on each hand! Pretty cute!

Gavin even had an Elmo cake!!

The dogs were a little tuckered out.

I guess Gavin is ready to eat!

Grandma, Grandpa and Gavin (all in green)!

We were happy to be home. We spent some time at my mom and dad's and got to see Mike, Susan and Grandma at church before heading back to Hutch. It is too bad that Roseau is soooo far away.

Merry Christmas- 2010!! (Part 2)

The Didrikson cousins and their spouses - that were home for the holidays. We missed the rest of them.
Thor, Kelsey, Kaydi, Dana and Kirsten

My mom and her family!

Susan is a big fan of Scrabble!!

We have given Grandma a Norwegian calendar every year.

Mike, Margie, Grandma and Susan ready to dish up too!

Jeff, David, Peggy and Mike getting ready to eat some yummy food!

Merry Christmas- 2010!! (Part 1)

We had a wonderful Christmas up in Roseau.

Gavin got a new Black and Decker workbench from Grandma and Grandpa Lee... he will be a busy boy building all kinds of things.
Here we are with our stockings on Christmas morning!

Grandma, Grandpa and Gavin!

JoAnn and Verland looking at the rolodex of special events made by Barb. Pretty cool!

Gavin and Uncle Emmett! (Happy Birthday Emmett- we celebrate his birthday also- Dec. 24!!)

Gavin getting ready to open one of his presents from Uncle Jeff and Auntie Missy. (It was a hockey net and sticks!) Gavin knows all about hockey.

Emilee and Adam

Emilee and I in front of Emmett's tree

The ladies in the kitchen.

Dad and Mark cuttin' up the bird! Yummy!

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

This video was taken right before Christmas... but I didn't get it to upload until now.

SNOW DAY!

Gus really likes the snow!

King of the hill!

This was taken right when I got home this afternoon- we will see how much we get tonight. I wonder how the Vikings game will go tonight- outdoors at TCF Stadium.

School was closed at 11:05 today due to MORE SNOW! I can't believe how much we have already had this December. It has been nuts! We are supposed to get another 5-7 inches tonight with more on the way on Thursday. Ridiculous!

Mary- this post is dedicated to you and Greg in Thailand! I'm sure you miss the MN winters! Also, I wanted you to recall the days of early outs/late starts due to snow! These days really throw off my lesson plans- but who cares about that, right!? : )

I'll try to post a video of the snow falling too!

Thanksgiving 2010!

We have so much to be thankful for: each other, a wonderful family, great friends, a spunky and cuddly dog, a comfy house, and good jobs.

God is good, all the time!

We had a wonderful dinner with the Lee Family on Thursday. As always, too much food! We spent time hanging out with family and went and saw the Erdmann family, too. Mike and Susan were in the cities for Thanksgiving weekend, but we met them in Detroit Lakes on Sunday for lunch!

Gavin chowing down on some lefse with Auntie Missy

Gus and I on a fine winter day (well, actually it was REALLY cold... and there was a lot of snow up in Ross already).

Gavin seemed to really enjoy lefse. This was at least his 3rd piece with the Lee's (not sure how much he had elsewhere!).

He wanted more butter and sugar on his lefse. He even decided that he would put his own sugar on his piece... he didn't need Grandpa's help.

Meet the Irresistible Mrs. Sorteberg! This was the headline on the Roseau Times Region front page over Thanksgiving weekend! Pretty cool! We were able to go in and visit Grandma Sorteberg a few times over the long weekend! What a great lady!